On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:48:44PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 07:28:19PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > In this scenario, you can determine the intent of the program copyright
> > holders, but what you need is a linking exception from the
> > purely-GPL-licensed library copyright holders, not from the program
> > copyright holders!
> Which, I guess, any sane person in this world would dismiss as usual free
> software licensing stupidity.
Actually, no, any "sane" person in this world would realize this before
the code in question was written, and use GnuTLS rather than OpenSSL.
I guess you and I have a different opinion on what "sane" means. Can we
please keep that kind of stuff out of the discussion? It's not very
helpful.
> Let's all just use Expat.
Err, that doesn't do TLS.
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
